Somerville High School music

Track separation is about extracting the original tracks as recorded, which could have more than one instrument played per track. Instrument recognition is about identifying the instruments involved and/or separating the music into one track per instrument. Various programs have been developed that can separate music into its component tracks without access to the master copy. In this way e.g. karaoke

tracks can be created from normal music tracks
, though the process is not yet perfect owing to vocals occupying some of the same frequency space as the other instruments.